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VP n YZ S7 15) j S3 1(S w Price Five Cents 2S Pages ' KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1954 ' Telephone Sill No. 2936 In The , Br FRANK JENKINS 1 In ft radio-TV talk In Portland the other night, hard-hitting Doug las McKay (now secretary of the interior in President Elsenhower's cabinet) sprung a hot one. From 1945 to 1952, he said, Dem ocratic Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman of Alabama (Sparkman became the Demo cratic nominee for vice-president in 1952) did their dafndest to get, s $100,000,000 appropriation for a series oi big federal dams on the Coosa river in Alabama. The Dem ocratic congresses of those years persistently 'TURNED THEM DOWN. So DEMOCRATIC Alabama lost out. . McKay then added: "During those identical years (1945 to 1952) Guy Cordon a REPUBLICAN from the REPUB LICAN state of Oregon got $266,039,000 tor McNary dam, $103 846,000 for Chief Joseph dam and J33, 676,000 for The Dalles dam and some additional money which may be used for the planning of sound partnership project." This Is the point: In those seven years, under a Democratic administration sup ported bv Democratic congresses, two powerful Democratic senators couldn't get even a measly b'.in dred million dollars for federal power dams in the Democratic state of. Alabama, whereas in these same years a REPUBLICAN senator from the REPUBLICAN state of Oregon was able to get nearly 500 MILLION DOLLARS for federal power dams in the Co lumbia, river! That raised the hair on the back of the neck of Democratic Sena tor Magnuson of the state of Wash ington, and in a red hot telegram to Oregon newspapers last night he savs: "We strenuously object to this blatant effort to grab credit for the Rood things done for the people of the Northwest by past Demo cratic administrations . . , The three dams in question were start ed under Democratic administra tions, the money was requested by Democratic officials and appropri ated by Democratic congresses." Senator Magnuson says the half billion dollars for federal power dams on the Columbia was pro vided EXCLUSIVELY by Demo crats. Secretary McKay says that Re publican Senator Cordon (who dur ing most of these, years was an in fluential member of the powerful senate appropriations committee, which OK'd the money) was de cisively helpful in getting the cash. Whom shall we believe? Personally, I prefer to believe Secretary McKay. I'd have more faith In Senator Magnuson if he and his New Deal cohorts had been more active behalf 'of federal power back 1951 -when the Bonneville-Shasta intertie was going down to defeat under the disapproval of state of Washington Democrats who want ed ALL the Columbia river power for their state and feared that the Shasta intertie would drain some of it down into Southern Oregon. On April 20. 1951, the appropria tions committee of the house of representatives, according to an AP dispatch from Washington, "turned thumbs down on a pro posed transmission line to connect the Bonneville and the California Central Valley federal power sys tems and verbally spanked the bureau of reclamation for doing preliminary work on the line with out authorization of the funds by congress." The 1951 house appropriations committee was composed of 30 Democrats including then Rep resentative (now senator! Jackson of Washington, and only 20 Repub licans. This Bonneville r Shasta Intertie story is a long one. with many ramifications, and I haven't space to go into !t now. I'll try to tell it in greater detail later. Neuberger charged early in the campaign that the spiking of it was a wicked Republican conspiracy in which Day s Mews . he intimated, Senator Cordon had a finger but he dropped that charge like ft hot potato when the facts about It began to come out, . anu nasn't referred to It since. At any Tate. Southern Oregon ; wanted the Shasta Intertie, and might have had it if Senator Mag- ruson and his fellow Democrats had bcn more willing to share the benefits of Columbia river power ! with Southern Oregon and far - Northern California. norE BELGRADE. Yugoslavia Ifl -Yugoslav President Tito has ex pressed hope that the Trieste agreement "will be followed by normalization of relations be tween Italy and us and this has always been our wish." Tito's statement was made Jn a speech Wednesday at Sarajevo. f t i-p r tout. ymiiitumttHmmkSJ' NEARING COMPLETION HERE and Klamath. The big structure Ullman Warns Indian Tribe Al Ullman, Democratic candi date to Congress, urged members of the Klamath Indian Tribe to keep a close watch on their share of the reservations assets at a potluck dinner-meeting at Beatty recreation hall Wednesday eve ning. Ullman urged vigilence on the part of the Indians to see that ad ministration of the -new law liqui dating assets of the reservation gives Uiem their fair share. He staled that revisions of the law will be necessary to close the loop holes. Trie political candidate criticized the sale of Klamath Falls trans mission line "because it closed the faucet on a potential supply of 30,000,000 kilowatts. of power from the Columbia River system." The Beatty stop was one of a series of visits to communities throughout the county and was ar ranged by Jesse L. Kirk Sr. Thurs day noon Ullman spoke at Fort Klamath: in the evening he was scheduled for a visit to Gil christ. . Friday's agenda will Include stops at Mtilin at noon;- Merrill in the afternoon and a potluck dinner In Klamaih Falls that eve ning. The evening meeting, spon sored by Democrats of the South Suburban District, will be held at the county fairgrounds at 6:30 p.m. SENTENCED ISTANBUL, Turkey tfl A Turkish military court sentenced 131 Communists Thursday to pris on sentences ranging from 5 months to 10 years in the biggest mass Red trial in Turkish history. 7 , rf'T MICHAEL BELDRAINS, one example of the success of em ploying the right man for the right job, being emphaiizpd this week, National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week. Beld'aine, an amputee, has a lookout on Hogback for the KFPA during the summers; in the winter ha maintains a radio and applianca repair, shop on South Sixth. a IU1 It the new County Library and Museum on the corner of Third it slated for completion sometime late this month. . -. Museum Workers Busy With Classification Of Relics And Material For Display Material for the Klamath County Museum, to be opened this fall, --is gradually being assembled and catalogued. Among the acquisitions which have gone in recently are a col lection ot about 100 minerals and polished agate pieces from the Klamath Mineral Club: two old. hand-woven coverlets from Mrs. Helen Mueller; some items from the Mr. and Mrs. Bert C. Thomas collection; a herbarium of native plants donated by the Klamath Nature Society; World War I ma terial and other Items Including an old flag which flew over old Fort Klamath presented by Klamath Post No. 8. American Le gion; the French Gratitude Train gilts which have been on display at the city library: and a few fos sils and odd items which were on Texas Proves Real Deadly ' AUSTIN, Tex. Ifl The State Health Department said yesterday that the July 1, 1953, population of Texas was 8.397,000 with 66,493 deaths that year. But in 1910. the department not ed, the population was 3,896,642 less than half what it was last year and deaths were almost the same, 66,210. ' In Dallas, the police had no ex planation. The first law against carrying a six-shooter, they said, was passed in 1867, L 1. - 4. -.-ruifrti.' 1 iisa&r-i! display at., the chamber ot com merce a few years ago. Work has beemcompleted on the collection of items accumulated over the past years which were stored In the vault of the court house. Many oHuem are ot' great historical interest in reconstruct ing the early history ot Linkvllle. More material Is needed, how ever, and it is hoped that Klamath County residents will lespond gen erously and promptly. Even a single old time photograph or clipping, is appreciated along'with the larger collections. Each helps build the story of our region. A deed of gift will ne presented to each donor, and the donor's name will appear on the placard accompanying the- object when on exhibition. The latter applies also to long-term and short-term loan material. . It is desirable that as much of the material as possible can be prepared and catalogued before the Job 'of moving Into the new building starts. Phone the curator, Mrs. Edith R. McLeod. 4290, and articles will be called for; or they may be left at 413 High Street. Construction Record Up WASHINGTON Wl The na tion's construction industry as sembled a record 10 billion dol lars worth of new buildings, high ways, water systems and other construction in the third quarter of this year. Announcing this Thursday, the Commerce and Labor Depart ments said building outlays in the first nine months of this -year came to a new ' record level of nearly' 27 billion dollars. 4 per cent higher than in the first three quarters of 1953. Private outlays in the first nine months of this year rose by 6 per cent to more than 18 - billion dollars. Public expenditures through September, at just over 8 4 billions, were about the same as a year before. Increased state and local spending offset a de cline in federal construction; The record 10 4 billion dollars of new construction put In place during July,' August and Septem ber was 7 per cent ahead of- the total for the third quarter of 1953. Women Drivers Win Supporter BO3T0N W Rudolph P. King. Massachusetts registrar of motor vehicles, has gone to bat for wom en motorists. H said yesterday It would be "ridiculous"' to compel women drivers to have higher compulsory auto Insurance than men, based on the safety records. "No; one woman has had to ap pear before me personally this vear,"- he said. "My lour hearing offlcera all say women drivers are definitely m the minority In the ca-ten handled." His statement followed a hint by one ttate legislator that women drivers should pay higher aulo 10- suraace rales than men. liLm i "i-..iuii1 Sea Islands By-Passed y Big Wind MIAMI. Fla. tm Hurricane Hazel, small but violent, brushed by the Dutch West Indies islands off the coast of Venezuela Thurs day and pointed westward in the Caribbean Sea. Continuing its forward move ment at 19 miles an nour, the sea son's eighth tropical storm was ex pected to increase slightly in in tensity and size during the next few hours. It packed winds of 100 miles an hour oVer a small area near the center. Gales extended outward 100 to 150 miles to the north and east. Northwest storm warnings were displayed in the Netherlands is lands of Bonaire. Curacao and Ar uba. All vessels in the path of the hurricane were advised to use cau tion. . WARNINGS . Storm warnings were ordered hauled down in the Netherlands West Indies and along the Venezu ela coast and its coastal islands. No immediate land areas lay In the path of the storm, which was still more than 1,000 miles south east of Florida. Grady Norton, chief storm fore caster at Miami, said another 24 hours of watchful waiting would be needed before forecasters could tell "much about where this hurricane is going."" - . Norton said the hurricane prob ably will continue to move to the west northwest until it reached the longitude of Jamaica and Eastern Cuba. , "From here. It might curve to the north, he ddcd.'-t ,: .Hui -rfcane Hazel -spawned from an easterly wave near the island of Grenada, at the .southern end of the Windwnrd Islands, Tuesday and moved steadily toward the west some distance off the Venezu elan coast. ' New York Sea Activity On NEW YORK Wl Normal water front activities resumed Thursday in the port of New York as first work gangs returned to the piers after the paralyzing two-day strike of 25,000 longshoremen. Several of the great transatlan tic liners, including the America and Mauretania, were in port and required hundreds of workers. Piles of cargo heaped on shipless docks elsewhere along the north river front gave employment to other gangs. The 48-hour strike was the sec ond to hit the world's busiest port within six months. The International Longshore men's Assn. won Its demand for immediate wage retroactivity but In turn agreed to a 45-day-no- strike pledge pending contract negotiations with the employers, represented by one New York Shipping Assn. With but slight warning, the ILA pulled dockers off the piers at midnight .Monday, insisting the employers grant an elght-cent-an-hour pay rai.se retroactive to Oct. 1, 19o3, before anything was done about a new contract. The old pact expired on the 1953 date. Anything Can Rain Down Here AUSTIN, Tex. tc The expres sion "rainin' cats and dogs" has almost passed from use since the great drought hit Texas. But Mrs. W. M. Reynolds here has a sub stitution: "After that hard rain yester day," she said, "I found two Jolly- fish in my front yard. I mean Just that old Jellyfish from the coast." The Jellyfish, Mrs. Reynolds re ported, were about as big as base balls. Texas Chief Leaps Rails ARDMORE. Okla. w The Santi Fe Railway's crack stream liner. The Texas chief, was de railed Thursday at Gene Autry 10 miles north ol here, when it col lidrd wl'h ft truck. , The Oklahoma Highway Patrol leported all occupants of the truck leaped clear, PatroTrnen also said that no pas sengers on the train were report ed injured, although most of them were shaken up when seven cars left the tracks. The railway cars, however, re mained upright but tors up seven car ioogtus ot tries. ';"''""";, -t . -.'t sVltilUM Ufa) AIR FORCE recruiter Don Adams was in the lens this "owning for the 9 o'clock photographer. US Troops Quit Trieste TRIESTE, tB The first Allied contingent left -Trieste territory Thursday as British and Ameri can military officers shifted their departure plans into high gear. An advance American party pulled out in a- 12-truck convoy for Leghorn, Italy. All 5.000 Allied troops are expected to be gone by at least Oct. - 26, In accordance with the Italftin-Yugoslav agree ment Tuesday to return the pres ent British - American occupied Zone A to Italy. Although a few occupation per sonnel left by private automobiles Wednesday, the departure of the U.S. convoy Thursday morning was the first sizable Allied move ment. Thfe advance party will pre pare Leghorn, a port on Italy's west coast, as a starting area for the 3,000 American troops now in Trieste. Police Seek Escaped Man SALEMJtfl - Elmer H. Belcher, who was sentenced 'to life in 'prison two years ago when he was 15, was sought Thursday after his "es cape from the prison farm. He was first missed at the( dinner count at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Warden Clarence ' Gladden called him an "excellent prisoner, per haps the best kid we had in the institution." Th'e boy was convicted at Eu gene of first degree murder in the April, 1952, gunshot death of Mary Ellen Campbell, 18, a deaf mute who lived on a Cottage Grove farm. At the trial, Dlst. Atty. C.E. Luckey now U. S. attorney for Oregon said school friends had taunted younj Belcher about the girl's pregnancy. I There were no stolen car reports after the escape but Gladden said Belcher had Just been learning to drive when arrested and presum ably made his way from the prison farm on foot. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy with a few showers Tnursday. Partly cloudy Friday, High both days 60. Low tonight 40. High yesterday 00 Low last night ..... 42 Preclp. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 0 Same period last year ....0.03 Normal for period 'Al IT - n Tr nnm ipMMiHMpgppii mi ihjilj V- i'lijfi !v hi B : f h I..,., ! -."-"-Z ' ' '., A SKIDDING MILK TANKER smashed into the corner of Calhoun's floor covering ltore at the Millt School curve on East Main this morning and did considerable damage. J. L Cal houn is shown looking over the cracked corner. The truck, a bulker hauling millc from the farms is the creamery, was not badly damaged. Rosvell, Other Pecos Valley Towns AvasH As Rains Cause Flash' Floods ROSWELL, N. M. (VP) Six persons war raportad missing and "presumed drowned" Thursday as savage floods from the heaviest rains in years pounded five southwestern New Mexico cities and towns. Gov. Edwin Mechem has declared a state of emergency and the National Guard has been ordered out. . Mayor Carl Carruthers of Dexter, 19 miles south of here, said he is heading Immediately for a flooded area south of here where he has been told six people are believed to have drowned. The flood has hit at Roswell, Dexter, Hagermen, Ar. tesia and Carlsbad, and possibly at Lake Arthur, also on the Pecos River. It is still raining on the east slopes of the Sacrament Mountains whose watershed feeds the streams which- have left their banks. A wall of wafer seven into the western part of this ot a rich. Irrigated valley tarming area. At Artesia, 43 miles to the south of Roswell, the Pecos River was running bank full and a roaring crest filled with debris was still rising. Born of a steady 24-hour rain In the mountains to the west, the flash floods cut communications and roads In a wide swath through the entire southeastern portion of the slate. . A 27-foot crest roaring down Rio Hondo which hits Roswell in the western section, sent a finger of its force into the city about 9 a.m. Rescue -workers waded waist deep to get families to safety. Aiost communications and roads were cut to Artesia, Hagerman arid Dexter, all down the .valley from here. Arroyos were reported Tunning full and there are possible flood threats near Hatch, in the lower Rio Grande Valley to the west of here, and further down the Pecos Valley. Creeks, rivers and normally- bone-dry arroyos all through this area are running, some ot them over their banks. BULWARK The Corps of Engineers district office in Albuquerque reported 10, 000 sandbags enroute to this val ley to bulwark 5.000 already in place along the edges ot the Rio Hondo, but proving ineffective. In Artesia, water two feet deep is reported in the major part of the business section and the entire new "Vnsswood ' section has been evacuated. Water was reported nine feet deep fn some low places on V.S, Highway 285 which threads through this rich irrigated valley leading to tho oilfield and potash sections lurtner soutneast. The Rio Hondo, which, with the Spring River last May sent thou sands from their homes and caused one death and three quar ters of a million dollars damage in a fla.sh flood here at Roswell, was still on the rise. DAM HOLDS Engineers said a main diversion 12 miles west of here had gone completely out but a dam hold ing a 10-mlle square reservoir of 47.000 acre feet presently was holding. The airport here was awash and continental airlines has closed all operations, Incoming and out going. Walker Air Force Base, on the outskirts of Roswell, had water running out the front gate six to eight inches deep. Walker airmen were Joining in the rescue and emergency operations. Some of the normally dry ar royos in the area were reported four miles wide. LAlNCHKD BREMEN, Germany Wl The 17,100-ton tanker Esso Duessol- dorf, the largest ship launched in Germany since World War II, slid down the ways Thursday at the A. O. Wescr shipyard. feet high at times has roared city of 28,000 persons, center - Alderson Charge Says ice District Attorney Frank Alder. son for the first time Thursday stated publicly that he believes Oirclilt Judge David R. Vanden berg is prejudiced against him and, therefore, it Is the district at torney's, opinion a fair trial oould not be obtained in the Klamath Palls jurist's court. Alderson made this statement in an affidavit supplementing a, mo tion for a change of judge In the Andrew J. Bushman morals case. The affidavit was filed with Cir cuit Court Clerk Charles DeLap to De lorwarriea to the State supreme Court. The affidavit states: "That the Honorable David R. Vandenberg of tho circuit court la prejudiced against me and as a rrejuo result of said prejudice. I do not believe the State ot Oregon, in trie ' above entitled case can have an Impartial trial before aald judge and therefore another circuit judge other than the said David R. Van. denberg should be assigned to pre side over any further trial or pr ceedmgs to said case.'1-. . Alderson added that the affidavit was filed in good faith and not for the purpose of delay. The Bushman case has been status quo for almost seven months and the defendant, who' . was. in dieted three times on a morals charge has never gotten beyond an arraignment He is held in the county jail. The. first indictment was dismissed because it was de fective. The second Indictment was dismissed on a motion of the dis trict attorney. Last week after Bushman was arraigned before Judge Vanden berg on the third indictment. Dis trict Attorney Alderson filed a mo tion for a change of judge. Attor ney George Proctor, who was ap pointed by Judge Vandenberg to defend Bushman against the la test charge, filed a motion opposing a change ot judge. He contends the statute providing for a change of Judge is unconstitutional. The Issue of the constitutionality of the change of judge law is now before the supreme court. Attorney Proctor quickly count ered Alderson's latest move by filing a motion with the circuit court clerk to strike Alderson's af fidavit of prejudice on grounds that It is "immaterial,' sham and lr- relevant." Proctor claims the statute under which Alderson filed Ills affidavit was repealed in 1947. The Associated Press reported from Salem Thursday that the su preme court has taken no action (Continued on page 4) '.4 T " SiW.j r , , i vt:t teat
